Maintaining an average of 70 - 90 active listings at all times, Janet Stockton of RE/MAX 100 in Commerce, MI is easily one of Michigan’s most prolific top producers. However, when I first met her at a recent VA workshop in Detroit she was getting only 2 - 3 hours sleep a night and literally "hated" her life! Here is the story on how Janet got her life back in just a few hours...

If you examine the business practices of any highly successful person, chances are you will find they have a coach that helps them stay on track. It is with that idea in mind that we are excited to announce our new COACHES CALL column at ePOWER! NEWS. Now with the "Coach" in your corner, success doesn't have to be such a lonely journey...

Many of you have heard me extol the benefits of using eFax Messenger Plus as a free alternative to Adobe Acrobat when producing "universally viewable" documents. However, most clients and prospects don’t have the necessary free eFax viewer installed, therefore its usefulness in those cases is limited. Read on to discover a very inexpensive alternative to the full version of Acrobat that instantly and easily creates PDFs of any document you can imagine, and that will be viewable by nearly everyone...

For the last four years or so, Valerie Kushnerov has been my trusted #1 Virtual Assistant. She is a wonderful example of all that is great about having a virtual assistant, especially an "Executive-Level" administrative virtual assistant who can help run and grow your business. Many of you have already come to know her through my travels; here is the rest of her story...

It was a Tuesday morning when Professional Real Estate VA, Kim Hughes of Creative Business Concepts, woke to discover that her hometown had been hit by an ice storm. Mineola, Texas had nearly three inches of ice coating everything. Schools and businesses shut down and many locations suffered from power outages. And if that wasn't bad enough, Kim had just committed to helping a top agent in Michigan move 90 listings over to her new Web site under an intense deadline. Read on to see how this VA moved heaven and earth to get the job done —on time...

How do you woo visitors and keep them on your website? How do you encourage them to click through to secondary pages? You provide an elegant but comfortable, easy-to-navigate site with efficient, informative content. This first in a series of articles will discuss how first impressions and “virtual clutter” can help or hurt your chances of turning clicks into closes...

Having been in the real estate industry for several years, Mark Goad of RE/MAX Commonwealth was already an experienced, successful REALTOR®. While maintaining the success that had resulted from hard work, Mark felt like there had to be a better way to stay the organized person he was, yet increase his production level. He mentioned his dilemma to me and we began brainstorming...